Fascinating and rather beautiful . . . Physicists want their objective, real world back. Adam Forrest Kay shows that there might be one way they can have it -- Philip Ball * TLS * Energetically written in short chapters interspersed with digressions into other episodes of scientific wrongturnings, ESCAPE FROM SHADOW PHYSICS is consistently interesting . . . Mr. Kay rightly highlights the limitations of current physics -- Andrew Crumey * Wall Street Journal * Artfully written . . . Kay's knowledge of physics history is exquisite . . . ESCAPE FROM SHADOW PHYSICS offers a splendid history of classical and quantum physics as well as a convincing exposition of hydrodynamic quantum analogues -- Paul Halpern * Science * Precise and seductive . . . I could gladly spend a year - or at least an academic semester - with this book -- Rebecca Coffey * Forbes * A singular addition to the popular literature on quantum interpretations -- Jim Baggott * Physics World * Whatever you think of Kay's efforts to overturn the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics and to justify Einstein by re-establishing classical norms of causality and determinism, his history of the whole wave/particle debate from ancient Greece onwards is authoritative and encyclopaedic - and intriguingly suggests that the purely scientific arguments were in part outweighed by an element of the straightforwardly human -- Michael Frayn * author of Copenhagen * Adam Kay has written a rollicking account of the history of science - and human intellectual folly. Rare in its irreverence towards the hallowed ground of quantum foundations, Escape from Shadow Physics is a must-read for quantum dissidents -- John Bush, Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT Adam Forrest Kay has accomplished a real tour de force: he has covered almost the entire history of science to illustrate the failure of instrumentalist or positivist approaches. This leads him to a radical critique of the current dominant view of quantum physics, known as the Copenhagen interpretation. Kay's critique is based in part on the pilot-wave theory and the hydrodynamic quantum analogues. This book will be a landmark in the history and philosophy of physics -- Jean Bricmont * theoretical physicist and author, with Alan Sokal, of Intellectual Impostures * Reads like a novel, in which the biographies of major physical concepts are intertwined with the biographies of the great minds that shaped them. The reader will be surprised by the clarity of Kay's arguments -- Ana Maria Cetto * author of The Emerging Quantum and winner of the 2023 UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularisation of Science * Adam Kay has written a book that lays out with great clarity the central issue in modern physics: are quantum-mechanical probabilities quite different in nature from all the others in physics and life? The reader will enjoy fascinating details from a great sweep of history and Kay's skill in explaining key technical facts with enviable simplicity -- Julian Barbour * author of The Janus Point * In the bouncing groove of an oil droplet, Adam Forrest Kay finds a new way to look at quantum mechanics - one that replaces randomness and mystery with new knowledge. Supported by a brilliantly told history and philosophy of physics, this book will change how you think about the field's past. And it may just set a new path for its future -- Stephon Alexander * author of Fear of a Black Universe *
